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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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Apogee Enterprises Inc.

Apogee Enterprises is involved in the design and development of glass and metal products and services. The company has four segments: Architectural Framing Systems, which designs, engineers, fabricates and finishes the aluminum frames used in customized window, curtainwall, storefront and entrance systems comprising the outside skin of buildings; Architectural Glass, which fabricates coated glass used in customized window and wall systems; Architectural Services, which provides building glass and curtainwall installation services; and Large-Scale Optical Technologies, which manufactures coated glass and acrylic products for framing and display applications.

Armstrong Flooring Inc.

Armstrong Flooring is a producer of resilient flooring products for use primarily in the construction and renovation of commercial, residential and institutional buildings. The company designs, manufactures, sources and sells flooring products primarily in North America and the Pacific Rim.

Ascena Retail Group Inc.

Ascena Retail Group is a specialty retailer of apparel for women and tween girls. The company has four operating segments: Premium Fashion, which consists of the Ann Taylor and LOFT brands; Value Fashion, which consists of the maurices and dressbarn brands; Plus Fashion, which consists of the Lane Bryant and Catherines brands; and Kids Fashion, which consists of the Justice brand. All of the company's segments sell fashion merchandise to the women's and girls' apparel market across a range of ages, sizes and demographics.

ATN International Inc.

ATN International is a holding company that, directly and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates telecommunications and renewable energy businesses in North America, India, Bermuda and the Caribbean. The company has three segments: U.S. Telecom, which provides wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional, local and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located mainly in the Southwest and Midwest U.S.; International Telecom, which includes voice and data services to retail customers in Bermuda, Guyana and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and Renewable Energy, which provides distributed generation solar power to corporate, utility and municipal customers.

Cardtronics plc Class A

Ceco Environmental Corp.

CECO Environmental is a provider of industrial air quality and fluid handling serving the energy, industrial and other markets through an asset-light business model. The company has three reportable segments: Energy Solutions, which provides offerings that improve air quality with engineered, and customized solutions for the power generation, oil and gas, and petrochemical industries; Industrial Solutions, which provides a set of air pollution control technologies to reduce carbon footprint, and lower energy consumption, among others; and Fluid Handling Solutions, which provides pump and filtration solutions that maintain safe and clean operations in harsh and toxic environments.

Clipper Realty

Clipper Realty is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company that acquires, owns, manages, operates and repositions multifamily residential and commercial properties in the New York metropolitan area, with a portfolio in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Coherus BioSciences Inc.

Coherus BioSciences is a commercial-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the biosimilar market. The company has received regulatory approval for the marketing of UDENYCA? (pegfilgrastim-cbqv), a biosimilar to Neulasta, a long-acting granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, from the European Commission and received regulatory approval for UDENYCA? from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The company's pre-commercial pipeline includes the following product candidates: CHS-0214 (its etanercept (Enbrel) biosimilar candidate); and CHS-131, its oral, small-molecule drug candidate, which is an oral drug candidate under development for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and other metabolic conditions.

Core-Mark Holding Company Inc.

Core-Mark Holding Company is a wholesale distributor to the convenience retail industry, providing sales, marketing, distribution and logistics services to customer in the U.S. and Canada. The company purchases a variety of brand name and private label products from suppliers and manufacturers. The company provides a variety of food/non-food products, including fast food, candy, snacks, groceries, fresh products, dairy, bread, beverages, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, general merchandise and health and beauty care products. The company operates consolidation centers which buy products from its suppliers in bulk quantities and then redistribute the products to its other distribution centers.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment Inc.

Dave & Buster's Entertainment is an owner and operator of entertainment and dining venues (stores) that operate under the name Dave & Buster's. The company's concept is to provide its customers the opportunity to Eat Drink Play and Watch all in one location for adults and families, while serving food and beverages. The company's Eat and Drink is provided through a menu of entrees and appetizers and a selection of non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. The company's Play and Watch offerings provide an assortment of entertainment attractions centered around playing games and watching live sports and other televised events.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

Diversified Healthcare Trust

Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company owns properties located in several states and Washington, D.C. The company's segment includes: properties leased to medical providers, medical related businesses, clinics and biotech laboratory tenants; triple net leased senior living communities that provide short term and long term residential care and other services for residents; third party managed senior living communities that provide short term and long term residential care and other services for residents; and all of its other operations, including certain properties that provide wellness, fitness and spa services to members.

Dorman Products Inc.

Dorman Products is a supplier of replacement parts and fasteners for passenger cars, light trucks, and heavy duty trucks in the automotive aftermarket. The company's products are sold under its various brand names, under its customers' private label brands or in bulk. The company's brands include DORMAN? OE Solutions ?, DORMAN? HELP! ?, DORMAN? HD Solutions?, DORMAN? Premium Chassis, DORMAN? Premium?, DORMAN? Premium RD?, and MAS?. The company's products are sold primarily in the United States through automotive aftermarket retailers, national, regional and local warehouse distributors and specialty markets, and salvage yards. The company also distributes automotive replacement parts internationally.

Essendant Inc.

Essendant is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a wholesale distributor of workplace items including janitorial, foodservice and breakroom supplies, technology products, office products, industrial supplies, cut sheet paper products, automotive products and office furniture. The company provides brand products within each of its product categories including Universal

Foot Locker Inc.

Foot Locker is a retailer of athletically inspired shoes and apparel. The company's reportable segments are: North America and International. The company's North America operating segment includes the following banners operating in the U.S. and Canada: Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, and SIX:02, including each of their related e-commerce businesses, as well as its Eastbay business that includes internet, catalog, and team sales. The company's International operating segment includes the following banners operating in Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand: Foot Locker, Runners Point, Sidestep, and Kids Foot Locker, including each of their related e-commerce businesses.

Global Net Lease Inc

Global Net Lease is a real estate investment trust company. The company invests in commercial properties, with a focus on sale-leaseback transactions involving single tenant net-leased commercial properties. Substantially all of the company's business is conducted through the Global Net Lease Operating Partnership, L.P. The company may also originates or acquires first mortgage loans, preferred equity or securitized loans secured by real estate. The company's properties are located in the U.S., the U.K. and across continental Europe.

Hawkins Inc.

Hawkins distributes, blends and manufactures chemicals and ingredients for its customers. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides industrial chemicals, products and services to industries such as agriculture, chemical processing, and plating; Water Treatment, which provides chemicals, equipment and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water and non-residential swimming pool water; and Health and Nutrition, which provides ingredient distribution, processing and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, health and wellness products.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation Class A

Hyatt Hotels is a hospitality company engaged in the development, ownership, operation, management, franchising, licensing or provision of services to a portfolio of properties, consisting of full service hotels, select service hotels, resorts, and other properties, including spas and fitness studios, timeshare, fractional, and other forms of residential and vacation properties. The company also manages, provides services to, or licenses its trademarks with respect to residential ownership units that are often adjacent to a Hyatt-branded hotel. Additionally, for condominium ownership units, the company provides services and/or manage the rental programs or homeowner associations associated with such units.

LTC Properties Inc.

LTC Properties is a health care real estate investment trust. The company invests in seniors housing and health care properties. The company primarily invest in: Skilled nursing centers, which provide restorative, rehabilitative and nursing care for people not requiring the treatment available at acute care hospitals; Assisted living communities, which serves people who require assistance with activities of daily living, but do not require the constant supervision that skilled nursing facilities provide; Independent living communities, known as retirement communities or senior apartments; and Memory care communities, which provide options for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

Manhattan Associates Inc.

Manhattan Associates is a developer and provider of supply chain commerce solutions. The company's solutions consist of software, services, and hardware, which coordinate people, workflows, assets, events, and tasks across the functions linked in a supply chain from planning through execution. These solutions also coordinate the actions, data exchange, and communication of participants in supply chain ecosystems, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, trading partners, transportation providers, channels (such as catalogers, store retailers, and Web outlets), and consumers. The company develops commerce solutions in three areas of customers' business: Supply Chain, Omnichannel and Inventory.

Medicines Company

Medicines is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is focused on inclisiran, the investigational RNA interference therapeutic, that inhibits production of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9, a main protein that controls low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol levels. The company has the right to develop, manufacture and commercialize inclisiran under its collaboration agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Neophotonics

NeoPhotonics develops, manufactures and sells optoelectronic products that transmit, receive and switch high-speed digital optical signals for Cloud and data center internet content provider and telecom networks. The company focuses on products that operate at speed over distance, for 100 Gigabits per Second (G), 200G, and 400G and above data rates, such as at 600G and 800G. The company produces transmitter and receiver components and modules, as well as switching products, for 100G and beyond transmission over distances of two to 2,000 kilometers. The company integrates transmitter and receiver components into next generation pluggable transceiver modules.

Nordstrom Inc.

Nordstrom is a fashion retailer providing a selection of brand-name and private label apparel, shoes, cosmetics and accessories for women, men, young adults and children. The company serves customers through two businesses: Full-Price and Off-Price. The company's operations consist of the company's Nordstrom U.S. and Canada full-line stores, U.S. and Canada Nordstrom Rack stores, Jeffrey boutiques, Last Chance clearance stores, Trunk Club clubhouses and Nordstrom Local. Additionally, customers are served online through Nordstrom.com, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook and TrunkClub.com.

NuVasive Inc.

Nuvasive is a medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedurally integrated solutions for spine surgery. The company's principal product offering includes a minimally disruptive surgical platform, Maximum Access Surgery. The platform includes the company's proprietary software-driven nerve detection and avoidance systems, and Intraoperative Monitoring services and support; MaXcess, an integrated split-blade retractor system; and implants and biologics. The company's spine surgery product line offerings, which include products for the thoracolumbar and the cervical spine, are used to enable surgeon access to the spine to perform restorative and fusion procedures.

ODP Corporation

Office Depot is a supplier of office products and services. The company operates through three reportable segments (or Divisions): Retail Division, which markets an assortment of merchandise through the company's chain of office supply stores throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; Business Solutions Division, which sells nationally branded and the company's private branded products and services to customers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada; and the CompuCom Division, which provides information technology outsourcing services and products to enterprise organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc.

Pacific Biosciences of California designs, develops and manufactures sequencing systems. Based on its Single Molecule, Real-Time sequencing technology, the company's products enable: de novo genome assembly to finish genomes in order to identify, annotate and decipher genomic structures; transcript analysis to improve annotations in reference genomes, characterize alternatively spliced isoforms in gene families, and find genes; targeted sequencing to characterize genetic variations; and real-time kinetic information for epigenome characterization. The PacBio RS II, Sequel, and Sequel II Systems conduct, monitor, and analyze biochemical sequencing reactions.

Pacira Biosciences Inc.

Pacira BioSciences is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a pharmaceutical company focused on delivering non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions to surgeons and anesthesiologist. The company's marketed product, EXPAREL (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension) is indicated for single-dose infiltration in adults to produce postsurgical local analgesia and as an interscalene brachial plexus nerve block to produce postsurgical regional analgesia. EXPAREL consists of bupivacaine, an amide-type local anesthetic, encapsulated in DepoFoam, the company's extended release drug delivery technology, that delivers bupivacaine over time for extended analgesia.

Physicians Realty Trust

Physicians Realty Trust is a self-managed healthcare real estate company. The company acquires, selectively develops, owns and manages healthcare properties that are leased to physicians, hospitals, and healthcare delivery systems. The company invests in real estate that is integral to providing healthcare services. The company's properties are located on a campus with a hospital or other healthcare facilities or strategically affiliated with a hospital or other healthcare system. The company's principal investments include medical office buildings, outpatient treatment facilities, and other real estate integral to health care providers.

Ra Pharmaceuticals

Ra Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its proprietary peptide chemistry platform to develop therapeutics for the treatment of diseases that are caused by excessive or uncontrolled activation of the complement system, a primary component of the immune system. The company is developing its primary product candidate, zilucoplan, a synthetic, macrocyclic peptide C5 inhibitor, formulated for self-administered, subcutaneous injection, which is an injection into the tissue under the skin, for the treatment of various complement-mediated diseases, including generalized myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and other complement-mediated disorders.

Regency Centers Corporation

Regency Centers is a real estate company and self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Regency Centers L.P. is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. The company's business consists of acquiring, developing, owning and operating income-producing retail real estate principally located in various markets in the United States.

Saul Centers Inc.

Saul Centers operates as a real estate investment trust. The company, which conducts its activities through its subsidiaries, the Saul Holdings Limited Partnership and two subsidiary limited partnerships, engages in the ownership, operation, management, leasing, acquisition, renovation, expansion, development and financing of community and neighborhood shopping centers and mixed-used properties, primarily in the Washington, DC/Baltimore metropolitan area. The company's properties consist of shopping center properties, mixed-use properties, which are comprised of office, retail and multi-family residential uses and development properties.

Stratasys Ltd.

Superior Industries International Inc.

Superior Industries International is engaged in the design and manufacture of aluminum wheels for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America and Europe and aftermarket distributors in Europe. The company's OEM aluminum wheels are primarily sold for factory installation on vehicle models manufactured by BMW (including Mini), Daimler AG Company (Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Smart), FCA, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mazda, Nissan, PSA, Renault, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, VW Group (Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley) and Volvo. The company also sells aluminum wheels to the European aftermarket under the brands ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO.

Teligent Inc.

Teligent is a generic pharmaceutical company. Under its own label, the company markets and sells generic topical and branded generic and generic injectable pharmaceutical products in the U.S. and Canada. In the U.S. The company markets generic topical pharmaceutical products and branded generic pharmaceutical products. In Canada, the company sells generic and branded generic injectable products and medical devices. Generic pharmaceutical products are bioequivalent to their brand name counterparts. The company also provides contract manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical, over-the-counter and cosmetic markets.

Theravance Biopharma Inc

Townsquare Media Inc. Class A

Townsquare Media is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company a radio, digital media, entertainment and digital marketing solutions company. The company's brands include local media assets such as WYRK, KLAQ, K2 and NJ101.5; regional and national events such as the Taste of Country Music Festival, WE Fest, Country Jam, the Boise Music Festival, the Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival and Taste of Fort Collins; and tastemaker music and entertainment websites such as XXLmag.com, TasteofCountry.com and Loudwire.com. The company's radio stations have local companion websites that utilize the station brands and are populated with content created or curated by its local media personalities.

TrueCar Inc.

TrueCar is an internet-based information, technology, and communication services company. The company helps consumers by providing information related to what others have paid for a make, model and trim of car in their area and guaranteed savings off the manufacturer's suggested retail price for that make, model and trim, as well as, in instances, price offers on actual vehicle inventory, which it refers to as Vehicle Identification Number-based offers, from its network of TrueCar Certified Dealers. The company's network of TrueCar Certified Dealers consisted mainly of new car franchises, representing various makes of cars, as well as independent dealers selling used vehicles.

Universal Health Services Inc. Class B

Universal Health Services owns and operates, through its subsidiaries, acute care hospitals and outpatient facilities and behavioral health care facilities. The company owns and/or operates inpatient facilities and outpatient and other facilities located in several states including, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. Services provided by the company's hospitals include general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care, pediatric services, pharmacy services and/or behavioral health services. The company's reportable operating segments consist of acute care hospital services and behavioral health care services.

Welltower Inc.

Welltower is a real estate investment trust. The company's segments are: Seniors Housing Operating, which includes seniors apartments, independent living and independent supportive living, continuing care retirement communities, Alzheimer's/dementia care, and care homes with or without nursing; Triple-net, which includes independent living and independent supportive living, continuing care retirement communities, Alzheimer's/dementia care and care homes with or without nursing, as well as long-term/post-acute care; and Outpatient Medical, which consists of outpatient medical buildings including physician offices, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic facilities, outpatient services and/or labs.

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